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Lot 194
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Jacopo Cestaro Naples 1718 - 1778

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Description

  • Jacopo Cestaro
  • Christ and the woman taken in adultery
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

With Weitzner, New York, by 1962 (as Francesco de Mura);
Morris I. Kaplan, Chicago, 1968 (as Francesco de Mura);
His deceased sale, London, Sotheby's, 12 June 1968, lot 71 (as Francesco de Mura), for £2,500 to Pasolini;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 16 April 1980, lot 79 (as Francesco de Mura).

Exhibited

Chicago, Chicago Art Institute, on loan 1962-1967.

Literature

A. Grisier, in Paragone, vol. XIII, no. 155, November 1962, p. 41, reproduced plate 48 (as Francesco de Mura);
Advertisement in The Connoisseur, vol. 168, 1968, reproduced p. lxxxv (as Francesco de Mura);
N. Spinosa, "Pittori Napoletani del Secondo Settecento", in Napoli Nobilissima, vol. IX, no. 3, May-August 1970 (as Jacopo Cestaro).

Catalogue Note

The painting was formerly thought to be by Francesco de Mura. For the attribution to Cestaro, a gifted pupil of Francesco Solimena's, compare the paintings published in N. Spinosa, Pittura Napoletana del Settecento, Naples 1987, vol. II, cat. nos. 14-28.